MORE COMPUTER WOES

Hi gang

Big apologies for not posting for - goodness, HOW long? Over a week?

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Well, guess what - the $%**$! computer went on the fritz again!

This time, I have no idea what went wrong... really sluggish, the mouse wouldn't scroll, and when typing anything the screen was blank for a bit, then the letters showed on screen around 20-30 seconds later, plus from the noise I could tell the computer was really labouring.

I couldn't find the problem: I ran Disc Cleanup, I Defragged, I ran my antivirus twice... no problems there for once... I tried System Restore three times, going back 3 weeks - and it still didn't fix it! So I rebooted the whole system again (took the entire weekend, and thank God for external hard drives so at least all my latest batch of photos etc was safe) and am finally sort of back on track again.

Anyone with any ideas what the problem was this time, I'd be very grateful! All I get from my husband (who does not touch the computer on pain of death) is "I thought you said you know what you're doing". Huh!